David: Sorry about the blank reply. Hands are too fast for my head today.
I just haven't looked into the problem because I'm the only FireFox user
around here. Since no one is complaining, I can't justify spending too
much time on it.
-Jim
David Worley wrote:
> Mine is the same cross browser. I've tested in Firefox 1.5, MSIE 6.0,
> and Opera (vWhoCaresItsOpera.0).
>> I'm surprised yours is browser-dependant.
>> ===============================
> David Worley
> Senior Front End Developer
>dworley at communityconnect.com> ===============================
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: mod_python-bounces at modpython.org> [mailto:mod_python-bounces at modpython.org] On Behalf Of Jim Steil
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:56 PM
> To: mod_python at modpython.org> Subject: Re: [mod_python] Simple Issue, Baffling
>> I have what I think is a similar problem. My app works just fine with
> IE, but when I try to get at it with FireFox, I see my HTML source
> instead of my app. I'm really new to all this, so it may not be
> related. But, I'm watching for a resolution as I'm hoping it will clue
> me in to what I'm doing wrong as well. It happens to me with Firefox
> 1.5.
>> -Jim
>> Jim Gallacher wrote:
>> David Worley wrote:
>>> To clarify further:
>>http://localhost/some/file/system/directory/style.css is
> only ever
> called from an HTML file, via a <link> tag.
>>> I figured you knew that, but one never knows. ;)
>>>> The HTML is valid. The HTML
> page is NOT generated by mod_python. It's just a plain
> HTML file in the
> folder. I created it just for testing dynamically
> created CSS files.
>> The separate issue of "text/html" content is, indeed,
> handled by another
> handler. The two are unrelated. When text/css content
> wouldn't work, I
> tried something simpler: plain HTML return content.
>> Simply put, req.write(xxx) returns content that my
> browser does not make
> use of, whether CSS or HTML, despite the explicit
> declaration of
> req.content_type. The browser just thinks it's text.
>> It may be more accurate to say that the server never
> returns HTML or
> CSS, rather than saying that the browser never renders
> the file
> returned.
>>>>> Is your handler as simple as you indicated or is there other
> stuff going on? Any chance you are calling req.write *before* setting
> req.content_type? The first call to req.write triggers the sending of
> the response headers, which contains the Content-Type header. Once
> you've starting calling req.write changing req.content_type will have no
> effect. (Hmm, I wonder if we should actually raise an exception... )
>> I find that tools like wget or netcat are helpful for this sort
> of thing since you can dump the response headers as well as the page
> content. If you don't have ready access to these programs I'm sure you
> could know somthing together from the standard python lib. Sometimes the
> simplest problems have the simplest solutions.
>> Jim
>>>> ===============================
> David Worley
> Senior Front End Developer
>dworley at communityconnect.com> ===============================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Gallacher [mailto:jpg at jgassociates.ca] Sent:
> Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:15 PM
> To: David Worley
> Cc: mod_python at modpython.org> Subject: Re: [mod_python] Simple Issue, Baffling
>> David Worley wrote:
>>>> Hello, all. I'm new to mod_python and somewhat
> new to server side
> programming.
>> I've read the documentation, and I can't seem to
> find out something
> relatively simple.
>> I'm writing a CSS preprocessor. It's meant to
> grab a request for a
>>>> .css
>>>> file, process another file and return the result
> to the browser. The
> issue I have is that I can't get the handler to
> return content the
> browser actually uses.
>> To clarify, I'm running Apache 2.0, Python 2.4
> on Windows XP.
>> So with the following httpd.conf entry:
>> <Directory /some/file/system/directory>
> AddHandler python-program .sss
> PythonHandler switch
> PythonDebug On
> </Directory>
>> And the following Python code, in switch.py:
>> from mod_python import apache
>> def handler(req):
> req.content_type = "text/css"
> req.write("""\
> body { background-color: red; }""")
> return apache.OK
>> This works. It works great. When I request
>>http://localhost/some/file/system/directory/style.css, I get the body
> declaration above. BUT the browser doesn't use
> it!
>>>>> Maybe I don't understand the question but why would it?
> The browser only
>> uses the stylesheet to render the page when it's
> specified in an html <style> tag.
>>>>> I have the same problem when declaring
> req.content_type = "text/html":
> the code is returned properly, but it isn't
> rendered as HTML. It's
>>>> just
>>>> text, as far as the browser is concerned.
>>>>> You got me there, unless you are saying you are getting
> the python code as opposed to the html you send with req.write. Are you
> writing valid html? Any chance there is a typo in req.content_type =
> 'text/html'? Are you using a different handler for generating the html?
>> It would help if you can clarify your problem a little.
>> Jim
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